If I won’t be myself, who will?
ALFRED HITCHCOCKThe paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.
More Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.
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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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Claude Jade is a brave nice young lady. But I don’t give any guarantee what she will do on a taxi’s back seat.
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I have a feeling that inside you somewhere, there’s somebody nobody knows about.
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A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
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When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.
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I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
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A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim – to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him.
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The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
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Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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There is something more important than logic: imagination.
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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
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